Blogworthies XXX

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ Dust in the Light; Lead and Gold; Damnum Absque Injuria; Cor ad cor loquitur; Sed Contra; Sibby Online; Daschle v. Thune; The Cool Blue Blog; Outside the Perimeter; Dyspeptic Mutterings; Fides, Cogitatio, Actio; SecretAgentMan; The Remedy; JunkYardBlog; Ever New; The Daily Recycler; Off the Record; and, Vociferous Yawpings.

Finding the Direct Interest @ Dust in the Light:

While expressing another position related to marriage that leads me to wonder what, in his experience, has made his assumptions differ so dramatically from mine, Mark Miller's comments to a recent post bring forth a link between his views on divorce and on same-sex marriage: ....

Nit-picking free riders @ Lead and Gold:

In what sounds like his valedictory post Steven Den Beste writes about the weariness that has set in after years of blogging. It is not the writing itself that has worn him down, it is reading the emails that his posts generate....

Dog Trainer Editors Can't "Seem" to Read @ Damnum Absque Injuria:

Apparently, the Clinton News Network isn’t the only news organization whose policy is that if their own editors haven’t bothered to look up the 12th Amendment, there must not be one. Today’s editorial on Schwarzenegger’s speech at the G.O.P. convention leads off with the following intriguing thought, which the editors do not rebut: ....

Reply to Bob Hypes' Article: "Religion and How I lost It" @ Cor ad cor loquitur:

The following article was published in atheist Farrell Till's The Skeptical Review (1995, Number One). I will notify Hypes and/or Till or someone else connected to this magazine about this reply, and anyone is welcome, of course, to counter-reply. Mr. Hype's words will be in blue. His article appears here in its entirety....

Christians and Schadenfreude @ Sed Contra:

Is cultivating schadenfreude a sin? Schadenfreude (say SHAHD-n-froy-duh) is not a new sort of European desert or a new brand of ice cream with a made up Euro-sounding name ala Häagen-Dazs. Rather schadenfreude is the mean-spirited pleasure we sometimes feel at the downfall of other, particularly others we perceive as somehow "deserving" their misfortune....

The hug... but watch your back @ Sibby Online:

Tom Daschle desperately needs to gain votes from supporters of President Bush, so he runs the “Bush Hug” ad....

Argus Editor's Trouble With The "Facts" @ Daschle v. Thune:

To the left is a pic from a big story in The New York Times about all the fundraisers that Daschle and other Democrats have held in the Hamptons, i.e. enough for them to warrant being designated as an "ATM." For more, including pictures of Daschle, see SDP. Bloggers wondered why people in NY had more information about where Daschle raised his money than South Dakotans did and some people emailed the Argus Leader and the editor, Randell Beck, said this on the Argus "blog": "Daschle's fundraising visit to the Hamptons has been reported at least twice in this newspaper." I can't find these "reports." ....

Tolerance? What's that? @ The Cool Blue Blog:

The Washington Post covered the protest march that took place in New York City on Sunday.

more than 200,000 protesters peacefully swarmed Manhattan's streets on the eve of the Republican National Convention to demand that President Bush be turned out of office.

Strange, but my experience of the protestors was that they were anything but peaceful....

PW in NY @ Outside the Perimeter:

I was in NYC yesterday with my fellow Protest Warriors, the counter-protest group to which I belong. It was an interesting time, what with being attacked by anarchists and all. I got in late last night, so this will be a very brief recap: ....

The Republican Party: Dauntless Champion of Family Values!™ @ Dyspeptic Mutterings:

Except where it's not, of course....

The best way @ Fides, Cogitatio, Actio:

.... The best way to hammer a nail is to hit it. The best way to try a meal is to eat it. The best way to say something is just to say it. So, let me say something: I want to become either Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox. This fact may baffle you; it may outrage you; it may in fact do nothing at all for you. Whatever your reaction, I assure you it has been the center of my life for just over two years now, and the source of much hidden anguish, confusion, joy, wonder, discovery, patience and prayer....

A Small Note @ SecretAgentMan:

Courtesy of Catholic World News, I read a story on the USCC's decision that the Catholic Answers voting guide should not be distributed on Church property. Titled "Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics," it's a prescription for heartburn among the "peace and justice" types who think fighting abortion has little to do with peace or justice: ....

"I Have Seen the Future, and It Works!" @ The Remedy:

This famous quotation, uttered by American muckraker Lincoln Steffens after he visited the Soviet Union in 1921, even now carries mixed meanings. For starry-eyed liberals it is a statement of noble faith in socialist progress. For down-to-earth conservatives it is evidence of a willing suspension of disbelief that excused one of the most vicious tyrannies in the history of the world. But new circumstances offer new meanings for this example of what Alan Greenspan might have called “irrational exuberance” had he been an adult at the time.

A different kind of future is coming because of the revolution in political communication which has occurred in the United States. We have seen the rise of an effective and principled use of talk radio, television cable networks, and the Internet, mostly by conservatives. So influential has this new juggernaut become that it has forced the so-called “mainstream media” to deviate from their lockstep support of the presidential candidacy of Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and examine the challenges Vietnam veterans have made to his carefully crafted image as a war hero....

Incident on the Bay Bridge @ JunkYardBlog:

The William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Bridge — more commonly referred to as just the Bay Bridge — connects Maryland's Western shore with its Eastern shore. It's both a scenic conduit from Baltimore to the more rural parts of the state as well as Ocean City, and a major thoroughfare for passenger and goods traffic. Millions of vacationers use the Bay Bridge to get to Maryland's Atlantic playgrounds every year.

It's also an inviting target for terrorists....

Friendship with Christ @ Ever New (ellipsis in original):

At a Mass, under a tent on a farm, I heard the instruction of a priest, "Say 'no' to whatever breaks your friendship with Christ." He spoke in such a clear and simple fashion that his words still linger in my mind, "Whatever it is in your life, whether it be a person, a place, a thing, a habit, a word...if it breaks your friendship with Christ then say no to that thing. Refuse it! Turn away from it and face the Lord." It made me realize the black and white-ness of things... something that the world no longer perpetuates....

The Buck Stops: With Kerry's Little People @ The Daily Recycler:

Kerry spoke about not having to worry about Washington State at a campaign event on Friday [Aug. 27] at the Everett Events Center. Watch the video below to see why he's so confident....

Code words @ Off the Record:

Try to guess: Who's the speaker, and what's the audience? (Hint: the speech was vigorously applauded.) ....

Under the Lights @ Vociferous Yawpings:

I played soccer. I was pretty good at it too. In college I was a starting goalkeeper. It wasn’t a major school, but heck, I got to start every game. I played keeper for about two years full time. Before that I played right forward and started in about half the games I played. I don’t even know how many games I played over the years. But in all those games there was one sensation that to this day seems a bit unnerving; playing under the lights in a big stadium....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 09/04/04 08:31:23 AM
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